Layout
What is a frame?
The lines and borders that contain the panels.
What is moment-to-moment?
- Same short passage of time
What is a theme?
A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements.
What are comics/graphic novels?
Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer
OR
Sequential Art
What is a comic strip?
A comic strip is a short work of comics which has its origins in the world of newspapers, but may also appear in magazines or other periodicals, as well as in books and elsewhere.
What is a panel?
A distinct segment of the comic, containing a combination of image and text in endless variety.
What is action-to-action?
•Same subject
•Shows change in physical form of subject, action performed (verb)
What is a motif?
Motif is a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work.
The phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole is what?
Closure
What is a gag cartoon?
A gag cartoon is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a hand-lettered or typeset caption beneath the drawing.
What is the gutter?
The space between panels
What is subject-to-subject
•Within scene/ idea
•Shows minute passage of time
What is a setting?
Setting, in literature, the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
What is graphic weight?
A term that describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways.
What are dailies?
A daily comic strip is a comic strip that is normally run six days a week in a newspaper, historically in black and white, although colour examples have become common. They normally run every day in a week but one, which is usually mage.
Define foreground and background.
Foreground: The panel closest to the viewer.
Background: Provides additional, subtextual information for the reader.
What is aspect-to-aspect
•Time may pause (Compression)
•Extension
• Same scene, as though the character or reader is “looking around.
What is paradox?
In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight.
What is bleed in graphic novels?
An image that extends to and beyond the edge of the pages.
What is an editorial cartoon or political cartoon?
An editorial cartoon or political cartoon is most often a single-panel comic that contains some level of political or social commentary. Such cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current affairs in a national or international context.
What is midground?
Allows centering of image by using natural resting place for vision. The artist deliberately decides to place the image where a viewer would be most likely to look first. Placing an image off-center or near the top or bottom can be used to create visual tension but using the midground permits the artist to create a more readily accepted image.
Non-sequitur
•Offers no logical relationship between the panels.
•Rare.
What is a rhetoric?
The term rhetoric refers to language that is used to inform, persuade, or motivate audiences.
What is emanata?
Emanata refers to the teardrops, sweat drops, question marks, or other motion lines artists draw beyond character faces to portray emotion.
What are Webcomics?
Webcomics emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, and are graphic novels published online. Webcomics are also capable of incorporated multimedia elements, such as sound, animation and bigger panels.